Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> writes: > On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 08:56:11PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > > [Re inet and cidr] > >> Why are these varlena? Just for ipv6 addresses? Is the network mask length >> not >> stored if it's not present? This gives us a strange corner case in that ipv4 >> addresses will *always* fit in the smallfoo data type and ipv6 *never* fit. >> Ie, we'll essentially end up with an ipv4inet and an ipv6inet. Sad in a way. > > Eh? Either will always fit. ipv6 is 128 *bits* and the new varlena > header goes to 128 *bytes*. That should fit easily, no?
Er, oops. -- Gregory Stark EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
